Re: Illegal use of reserved word in system.h

From: Ben Greear
Date: Thu May 19 2005 - 12:47:45 EST


Chris Friesen wrote:
Ben Greear wrote:

It can be helpful to know what HZ you are running at, for instance if you care
very much about the (average) precision of a select/poll timeout.


If you move the binary to a different system (or upgrade the kernel, for that matter) the assumptions can be totally wrong.

This should be checked at runtime, not compile time.

If course...that is why I like the idea of some system call or standard API
to get the information.

Ben


Chris



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